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Post by hoyalaw33 on Feb 7, 2017 19:19:27 GMT -5
Why is a lineup of Hayes, Agau, and Johnson on the floor at any point in time?
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Feb 1, 2017 0:10:07 GMT -5
And-1 on a great drive, a HUGE block!!, and then closes the game out with a wonderful lay-in. Kid makes winning basketball plays. Went back and watched the last 2 minutes. I think most people assume the guy on Depaul just missed a lay-up with about 40 seconds, but in reality Peak came weak side and got a hand on it. That play might have saved our season. Heck of an effort
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Jan 22, 2017 17:40:30 GMT -5
Eagle, I do think you are pretty insightful on issue spotting, but I don't see how you can continue to say that this team would be a lot better with a different coach. We don't get easy looks because we don't have a PG that can set-up or initiate the offense. College Bball is won at the PG positon nowadays. Without one, it really doesn't matter how much front court talent you have as you won't be able to exploit that advantage by getting easy looks. I'm starting to watch without emotion and more with an analytical eye to try and see how this team can be developed. This season, it can't be. Too much inconsistency from game to game by the individual players.
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Jan 22, 2017 17:36:01 GMT -5
After finally having some downtime on a Saturday, I watched a good solid 5-6 hours of college basketball and was amazed at how easy it was to predict winners while betting. A team without a "great" or "good" point guard (prolly top 25-30 pg's in college bball) does not win games. It's that simple. The amount of times I watched Matt Farrel blow by the top of the Cuse zone and feed wide open ND shooters, Howard/Rowsey on MU torching Zierdan off the dribble to set-up teammates, or Fox on KU initiating the offense and getting people open looks was unquantifiable. A good point guard makes the entire team tick, shooters get open looks, big men get paint touches, and the opposing D gets broken down which leads to easy points. This team doesn't get open looks, we have talent and we have desire, but we don't get easy buckets very easily. Those 5, 6, 7 easy buckets a game a good PG gets you would have us sitting at a much better record. This team is talented, but it has a fatal flaw it just cannot overcome. Waters will finally put us on equal footing with teams that have elite/very good guards. We need to complement him with a couple shooters and people who can cut. If we can do that over the next year or two, we will go back to being a big-time program.
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Jan 16, 2017 22:44:27 GMT -5
Without JTIII next year, what do we have as a team that won't be worse than this year? and will continue to be horrible for 2-3 years
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Jan 16, 2017 22:36:11 GMT -5
Deleted. No excuse for attacking a player like that here. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Jan 9, 2017 15:28:58 GMT -5
We would take 1 or 2 more kids to round out '17. Blue. I know you have insight into the program and their feelings about recruiting. With Cunliffe going elsewhere, are we looking to fill out the '17 class a little more? I would hope we go after another high school kid and then perhaps the transfer market or JUCO. If we only end up with 2 in this class its a lot of pressure on the '18 class to grab 5-6 guys that can make an impact. Difficult, but not impossible to do.
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Jan 4, 2017 20:43:54 GMT -5
Peace guys. Been a diehard fan since I could walk and I'm so sick of this program. How anyone can defend Thompson at this point..... Bout to be the floormat of the conference for 4-5 years in a row. Hire Ewing or someone with any sort of pull so the alumni don't leave.
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Jan 4, 2017 19:32:32 GMT -5
Trying to be as unbiased as possible. Harder to do over a crap online feed. I have never seen a team absorb more contact and not get a foul called than our guys. Seriously, what the f*** is going on? This is a continuous thing. Other teams are allowed to murder us grabbing boards and we get called when opposing players flop. Editedes me off to no end. F*** the zebras
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Dec 14, 2016 12:43:59 GMT -5
I think an analogy across the sports spectrum would do some good to try and explain to those that Coach cannot shoulder a majority of the blame. In soccer, each top club brings in the best talent on a year by year basis, but only 1-2 of those kids tops will make it to the top and become a first-team regular. Is that all on the coach? No, either the player isn't really that good, or he didn't push himself to maximize all that natural talent. There is a reason so many of the 1 and done's have flamed out or make little impact at the NBA level. Talent is one thing, but the guy who is up at 6 in the morning every day getting in an extra lift and some shots up is going to surpass the kid born with more talent. Now whether or not Ike didn't push himself is unknown, but maybe he wasn't that good? Looking at his recruiting news, he was never a dominant player until he joined up at Brewster and even then it was flashes of incredible potential with little consistency. I don't know how anyone can sit here and debate that Coach doesn't develop talent. Just to list a few players who have developed into incredible college basketball players that haven't been named: Clark, Vaughn, Sims, Thompson, Bowen, Starks... No one thought Hollis or Sims were NBA players coming out of high school, Hell Aaron Bowen is playing professional basketball. At some point, it's all on the kid. Most coaches do the same thing as the next and what separates kids at this level is pure desire. Look back @ the article about how DSR and Starks were up at 5:30 every day to go and get shots up. You can't teach that and that's why I think Walker is a huge pickup. My cousin plays with him (Walker) and while he says he's a little raw regarding actual basketball skill, he says you won't find anyone who is more of a gym rat.
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Dec 12, 2016 23:48:03 GMT -5
Good question, and one I've thought about. Under the rules, you "use" 1 of 4 years of eligibility if you play at all. Thus, Agau has used three years, and next year would be the "last." That said, I think he could certainly apply for a waiver because he played 11 minutes and it would be silly to basically eliminate an entire year of playing over 11 minutes. But without a waiver, he's done after next year. Yeah, somehow the transfer would have to be skewed as a "hardship" situation similar to Josh Smith (coaching issues) or Hayes (personal issues) to waive the 11 minutes. NCAA being all over the place never makes predicting something easy, and it is dependent on the kid himself, but Gtown is usually pretty good at winning this appeals to the NCAA.
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Dec 12, 2016 22:49:32 GMT -5
Looking at the scholarship chart and trying to make sense of some of the speculation regarding Agau. If you look at it academically, he's a senior this year (unless all his Louisville credits didn't roll over), a junior from a basketball perspective, yet this is really only his 2nd year of actually playing. The year he transferred to us, he played a total of 11 minutes which I would assume could be waived based on precedent thus giving him 3 full years when he got to the Hilltop. Anyone have any concrete info on whether or not next year is his last from an eligibility standpoint or is there a chance my logic is correct in thinking he could get an "extra" year granted. Would love to have him in the frontcourt as I think he can be a stud when he's healthy and back up to 100%.
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Dec 10, 2016 16:58:04 GMT -5
Need Butler and Xavier to win today.
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Post by hoyalaw33 on Dec 10, 2016 16:55:36 GMT -5
Been a follower of the board for quite some time now and getting around to my first post. Count me in on the group that thinks this might have been our most impressive game of the year. If you have it recorded, go back and look at the Ok St. game, our players self-destructed by committing stupid basketball plays over and over. I did not see our guys pick up their dribble 30+ ft from the basket while under pressure or just throw the ball to a spot without looking at the D. Still think the PG position will give us fits throughout the year, but when we are attentive on D and fundamentally sound on the boards, I think this team can compete with anyone outside the top tier. Our best lineup going forward in my opinion is whoever is playing well at the point with LJ, Rodney, Marcus, and Jessie. That group together has so much offensive potential. Love to see MD play that inside-outside game, dude has moves and counter-moves to be able to get a good luck. I think his lack of lift is the only reason he sometimes struggles to finish. Good game from Coach, but would have liked him to have had the awareness to scrap the press after about 5 minutes as it was allowing them looks that our half-court D wasn't. Think we are a solid role player away from being the team we all thought we could be at the beginning of the year. We need Ike to just be solid and one of the guards, KJ Tre Mulmore, to be good enough to come in and spell Peak for 4 minutes each half. Onto Cuse! Will be one of the only ones wearing Grey in the lower bowl with my Pops.
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